Posts by Nicole Cooley
One Shift To A More Intentional Holiday Budget
Are you feeling it yet? The encroachment of the gift giving season? I’m feeling it: Strongly. I’m already stressed about starting to get my lists checked off. Stressed about the number of gifts I need to buy, stressed about staying on budget, stressed about how much stuff my son will get. It’s all is so…
Read MoreThe Better Way To Track Food Numbers In Your Budget
Food is a hot button topic on any budget. It’s one of the first areas my clients zero in on to cut back. When you first start tracking, your food totals can be shocking! As a coach, food is also one of the first categories I want to look at with my clients because it’s…
Read MoreTrouble Kicking Bad Money Habits? Yeah, Me Too.
I like to shop. (Gasp!) I love to shop, actually. I love the hunt. I like feeling good in what I’m wearing and I like my house to be cozy and decorated. This often surprises people. They assume because I am a money coach I should be frugal or a minimalist. But I’m neither of…
Read MoreLife Too Busy To Look at Your Money Stuff? Read this…
We want our financial lives to be linear. Your salary, savings and net worth continually increasing. But that isn’t real life. Real life is layoffs, jobs you hate, medical issues, and kids. Real life is “I don’t care how much the pizza costs, just order it.” As you ebb and we flow through life, so…
Read MoreShould I Spend Money On That? How To Decide…
My son Caden turns ONE tomorrow. We are having a family birthday party for him, but this is a lot easier said than done because we have big families. And when we made the invite list of 35+ people all I could see was stress and a lot of work. So my husband and I…
Read MoreMy Top Tricks To Get Money Motivated
I sat down with the pile of receipts cursing myself. I hadn’t tracked my money in two months. TWO FULL MONTHS. Sure, I had a baby during that time and was on maternity leave, but i’m a Money Coach. I LOVE this stuff. How did I get so behind? Basically, life happened. My focus was…
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